Pierre de La Chatre

Pierre de La Châtre († 1171 ) was Archbishop of Bourges from 1141 to 1171 . He was a student of Archbishop Alberich von Reims (1085–1141). Pierre came from the La Châtre family and was a cousin or nephew of the cardinal and Lateran canon Aimery de La Châtre , a secretary to Pope Innocent II (1088–1143).

As archbishop

The appointment of Pierre de La Châtre as Archbishop of Bourges sparked a crisis that had simmered for several years between Louis VII of France and Pope Innocent II. Traditionally, the French king had the right to propose the election of the archbishop. However, when Ludwig nominated his Chancellor Cadurc for the office, the cathedral chapter objected and campaigned for its own candidate. Louis refused entry into Bourges for Pierre de La Châtre, appointed by Pope Innocent II, and when the Pope asked the king's ministers to prevent their masters from continuing to behave as “foolishly as a schoolboy”, Louis made an oath Relics that Pierre de La Chatre Bourges would not enter while he was alive. Pope Innocent then excommunicated Ludwig. This excommunication represented a heavy punishment for both deeply religious Ludwig and the citizens of his royal cities. In no city or castle in which he resided, bells were allowed to ring, church services or church funerals and baptisms or marriages were allowed.

The conflict between the French king and the Pope over the appointment of Archbishop of Bourges was compounded by another affair. Her younger sister Petronilla lived in the household of the French Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine . In the summer of 1141, the 16-year-old started an affair with Raoul de Vermandois , 35 years her senior , who was married to a close relative of Count Theobald von Champagne . In the winter of 1141/1142, Ludwig found three well-meaning bishops who annulled Raoul de Vermandois' existing marriage because they were too closely related by blood and then married him to Petronilla. Theobald von Champagne not only took his relatives and their children into his household, but also protested to Pope Innocent against Ludwig's interference in a matter that was to be decided by the Church alone. Theobald found support from Bernhard von Clairvaux , who was shocked to Pope Innocent about the crime against the Champagne family and against the sacrament of marriage.

The conflict between Ludwig and Pope Innocent II did not end until the Pope's death. His successor Celestine II was more conciliatory and, as a gesture of goodwill, lifted the ban against Ludwig. Bernhard von Clairvaux organized a series of meetings in the winter of 1143/1144, which finally led to the resolution of the crisis. On April 22, 1142 at a conference taking place in Saint Denis, Ludwig had to bury his ambition to enforce his candidate for the office of archbishop and accepted Pierre de La Châtre as archbishop.

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Some letters from Pierre de la Châtre to Louis VII and Suger von Saint-Denis (1080 / 1081–1151) have survived. There are two charters of his in the Gallia Christiana . In 1156 he took the Chalivoy monastery under his protection. In 1159 he confirmed the founding of the Noirlac Monastery .

literature

• Marion Meade: Eleanor of Aquitaine - a biography. Penguin books, London 1991, ISBN 0-14-015338-1 .
• Daniela Laube: Ten chapters on the history of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main / New York 1984, ISBN 3-261-03476-9 .
• Ralph V. Turner: Eleanor of Aquitaine - Queen of the Middle Ages. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63199-3 .
• Alison Weir: Eleanor of Aquitaine - By the warth of God, Queen of England. Pimlico, London 2000, ISBN 0-7126-7317-2 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Georges Minois: Le confesseur du Roi: Les directeurs de conscience sous la française monarchy . Fayard, 1988, ISBN 2-213-02170-8 , pp. 127 f . (French, limited preview in Google Book Search). Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles : Dictionnaire universel de la noblesse de France . Au Bureau général de la noblesse de France, 1821, p.
    144 (French, limited preview in Google Book search). Louis Moréri : Be-Cop . In: Le grand dictionnaire historique ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane . tape
    2 . Jacques Vincent, 1732, p. 786 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ ^{A b} Emmanuel Pastoret (1755-1840), Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial (1743-1828), Pierre-Claude-François Daunou (1761-1840): Histoire littéraire de la France . tape 13 . V. Palmé, Paris 1869, p. 447-453 (French, online ).
3. ^ Turner, p. 86.
4. ↑ quoted from Weir, p. 40.
5. ↑ Weir, p. 40.
6. ^ Meade, p. 55.
7. ↑ Weir, p. 39.
8. ^ Meade, p. 56.
9. ↑ Weir, p. 40.
10. ↑ Weir, p. 40.
11. ↑ Turner, pp. 91-93.

predecessor	Office	successor
Alberic or Aubry	Archbishop of Bourges 1141–1171	Etienne de la Chapelle